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How can we stem the tide of outsourcing? In this comprehensive look at the real, human toll of America's unsound trade policy, Senator Dorgan exposes the myth of "free trade." Indeed, free trade is not free; it is slowly but surely draining away American prosperity. Chinese labor can drive down prices at Wal-Mart; but at the same time, those saved wages--dollars that would have gone to buy these cheaper goods--are gone. Too soon, it will all come...
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With the rise of globalization in recent decades, a free market in goods and the free movement of capital have spread worldwide. Should U.S. policy also favor the free movement of labor to legally cross borders? Would the elimination of barriers in the job market flood the labor pool with workers and depress wages? Or would the benefits of a flexible labor supply be a boon to our economy and raise the standard of living for anyone willing to work?...
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This episode brings some encouraging news to viewers about public schools that are preparing youth and retraining adults to provide the backbone of our 21st-century workforce. Traveling the country, Smith tracks common strategies for successful education in locations as diverse as Cincinnati, Ohio; Oakland, California; and the Rio Grande Valley of southern Texas. A rare visit to schools in Shanghai, China, where thousands of young people are gearing...
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"To its critics, globalization is a terrible development that makes almost everybody worse off and threatens the survival of the planet. They blame it for everything from mass poverty in Africa and Latin America to the falling living standards for workers in Europe and North America. In contrast, globalization's advocates argue that it is the greatest force for good in human history, a powerful institution for improving the quality of life around...
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"What does it mean to work in the forgotten America where millions toil in the shadow of prosperity? What is the daily reality of life for a factory worker or field hand? To find out, award-winning journalist Gabriel Thompson spent a year working alongside America's invisible poor--citizens and immigrants alike--all of whom endure backbreaking work, miniscule wages, and nonexistent benefits in their struggle to make ends meet"--Page 2 of cover.
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In the United States work underlies our very concept of who we are. Changes in society and technology have influenced how and where we work, and transformation within the workplace in turn have altered our society. "A Nation at Work" addresses the fundamental economic, demographic, policy, and business facts about how the workforce and workplace are changing in the early twenty-first century. Illustrated with over thirty-five graphs, Part I covers...
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"Today's workplace is already a tapestry comprising people of countless different backgrounds, ethnicities, age groups, religions, and more. But that diversity is just the beginning of a radical shift in the makeup - and requirements - of tomorrow's workforce." "The New Workforce gives you a clear picture of the rapid changes now under way - along with the steps required to attract and retain motivated, loyal, and productive employees. Based on a...
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"Five in-depth case studies reveal the innovative practices that position U.S. community colleges as pathways to quality employment. In America's Hidden Economic Engines, editors Robert B. Schwartz and Rachel Lipson spotlight community and technical colleges as institutions uniquely equipped to foster more equitable economic growth across America's regions. As Schwartz and Lipson show, these colleges are the best-placed institutions to reverse the...
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"Why should employers pay American workers much more to work far fewer hours a year than the competition? They won't - unless Americans know more and can do more than the workers with whom they compete." "Thinking for a living is the first book to address head-on the issue of the appalling mismatch between what our economy needs and what our educational institutions actually provide. A massive imbalance between the resources available for the education...
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Calls for first redesign of the American education system in a century. This report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce argues that the dynamics of the global economy will lead to a steady decline in the American standard of living if this country does not undertake the first thorough overhaul of its education system in a century. It discusses how our country can graduate 95% of our students (not two-thirds, as it does now)...
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"The story and analysis of flexibility and entrepreneurship is told in The Future Workforce: The 21st-Century Transformation of Leaders, Managers, and Employees, a future-focused view of the American workforce in all sectors. But the emergence of new kinds of employees, managers, and leaders has been overlooked. In response to the incredible challenges of the workplace, new workers at all levels represent the creation of the most productive and creative...
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The economic recovery of the 1990s brought with it a surge of new jobs, but the prospects for most working Americans improved little. Family income rose only slightly and the period witnessed a significant degradation of the quality of work as well as in what people could expect from their waged employment. In this book, Margaret K. Nelson and Joan Smith take a look inside the households of working-class Americans to consider how they are coping with...
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